#Populism

While we wait, a short thread of my Biden-related work, starting with my 9/17 piece: "Joe Biden’s Platform for 2020: Anti-Populism""you can see him sculpting a role for the 2020
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There are lot of received wisdoms about #FarRight (often wrongly referred to as #populism ) and #COVID19 so @JakubWondreys and I looked into it. Turns out, shocker, most are wrong.
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1/ Why I don't blackpill about The Reverend Dr. President Trump. And why you shouldn't blackpill. Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the electoral process. 2/ Even
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Gems from the Ezra Klein Show convo w historian @anneapplebaum Very often the best way to fight this culture war or populism is not even to deal with it. In
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Yesterday's events in #CapitolHill raise important questions about the nature of the 21st Nationalist Right, and the relationship populism and fascism. Perhaps not the best time to discuss this as
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Complete political ideology county map of the United States, by Gabriel F. Guidarini. State map, insets, ideology summaries, and methodology report in thread. Insets of New England and Virginia/Maryland: US
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The #Antifa/#SJW/#Woke crowd actually tick quite a lot of the boxes for #Fascism. When you try to talk to them they respond with threats of violence and insults. Everything is
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A lot of what passes for “populism” in the current discourse is the most toxic form of elitism: Using your power and platform to feed people lies, and then dishonestly
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A very telling interview with Czech PM Andrej Babis textbook illustration for (technocratic) populism.https://hir.harvard.edu/shock-to-the-heart/A shorts thread on technocratic populism using AB quotes to illustrate some relevant aspects of
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With the post-Trump era underway, the debate about conservatism's future moves ahead. My recent @WSJ @AmerCompass conversation with @GeraldFSeib @GeorgeWill helpfully distills some of the conflicts between the Legacy (Will)
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There’s a strong correlation between white fauxgressivism, white saviorism and gentrification. Their parents left our communities during white flight, they decided to come back, co-opt our movements and displace us
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While we await white smoke signalling a #Brexit deal, let us consider what the end of the transition period on 31 Dec (deal or no deal) will mean for the
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Den 10:e januari kommer att vara en sorgens dag och den nya pandemilagen är en principiell styggelse.Låt mig förklara varför. Först och främst ska jag vara tydlig med att jag
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"...when you look at the wealth disparity today, which by the way, in my opinion, the biggest accelerant of has been QE, it's not even debatable..." - Stan Druckenmiller on
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1/ A brief addendum on the social base of right-wing populism. "Diner interviews" in the American "heartland" have created a deeply misleading picture of the activist base of populist movements
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So Rep. Gohmert's lawsuit involving VP Pence will draw attention to the fact that VP Pence could ignore contested electors in battleground states to help elect Trump.There is good precedent
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